Peter Cameron

[MonicaL]

One thing that might also be worth checking also are the post office directories around 1865 for 222 High Street. Unlike the big cities where an individual address would very often be for a tenement with many people living there, maybe not the same for Elgin?

The National Library of Scotland have brought online many of the Post Office Directories but cannot see anything around that time for Elgin - http://www.nls.uk/family-history/directories/post-office/index.cfm?place=Morayshire  This is the closest, 1863, but nothing shows http://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=85597821 (I may not be looking in the right bit though!). It may be that Donald Cameron did not appear in directories though, not everyone did.

A better way may be a search of the Valuation Rolls for 1865, see here for background www.scan.org.uk/knowledgebase/topics/valrolls_topic.htm

I understand you are not local  but perhaps contacting the relevant local history library via email with a very specific request might help?

Monica

[Forfarian]

One thing that might also be worth checking also are the post office directories around 1865 for 222 High Street. Unlike the big cities where an individual address would very often be for a tenement with many people living there, maybe not the same for Elgin?

Unfortunately Elgin High Street has quite a lot of tenements

[MonicaL]

Well, that will likely not get us very far maybe 

I added this post on the deciphering board www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,635636.0.html

Monica

[GR2]

The Peter Cameron, mason, found above in the 1841 census at Tomintoul, is still there with his wife in 1851. Both are born in Kirkmichael, Peter is still a mason and aged 55.

If he is the right person, his brother would perhaps be born in the same parish. The 1851 census shows a Donald Cameron, aged 59, born Kirkmichael, a farmer in the parish of Kirkmichael (mostly pasture). His wife is Charlotte.

The 1841 census shows this same Donald Cameron at Tombreck, Kirkmichael, as a mason. He has six daughters and one son, Peter. It looks as if the mother has recently died. Charlotte Middleton is a servant keeping house and looking after the children. Donald must (as often was the case) have married her as her age and name fits with the 1851 wife.

If this is uncle Donald, he would have been about 73 when his nephew died and had perhaps seen out a 19 year lease and retired to Elgin.

[elaine447]

The words after her name look like (previously Fine)
Elaine

[Gadget]

Just thinking that it might be a wrongly written Finnie

[Countryquine]

Re reply 4 by Skoosh
Achany/Achary?


Could the word be Auchinachie or Auchnie - the first being a surname and place name and the second a surname.

Just a thought!

[MonicaL]

Graham, there is also another Peter Cameron, mason by trade, shows on libindx http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/mainmenu.asp:

NM038193
PETER CAMERON
c. 1792 to 05 FEB 1875
           
Occupation : MASON
Date of Birth : c. 1792
Spouse's Name : ELIZABETH GORDON
Headstone Ref : Tst45
Date of Death : 05 FEB 1875
Place of Death : TOMINTOUL

Robert's father, Peter, showed as deceased in 1865   

Been up and down the censuses so far and nothing I can see that connects.

About to try all the new surname possibilites from Brevitas, Countryquine and Elaine...!

Monica

[GR2]

I see from Libindx that Donald Cameron who married Charlotte Middleton died in 1856, so he is ruled out.

Family search shows a Donald Cameron in Elgin, aged 39, in the 1861 census.